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1930 · PDF PAGE 35

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

is impossible to lay down précisé rules by which a man may attain to the knowledge and conversation of His Holy Guardian Angel ; for that is the particular secret of each one of us; a secret not to be told or even divined by any other, whatever his grade. It is the Holy of Holies, whereof each man is his own High Priest, and none knoweth the Name of his brother’s God, or the Rite that invokes Him. The Masters of the A A .*. hâve therefore made no attempt to institute any regular ritual for this central Work of their Order, save the generalised …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 48

Ambergris

…face Grew as the dawn and never satiated. She knew not in her strong imperial soul How hopeless was the slavery of life, How by the part man learns to love the whole, How each man’s mistress calls herself a wife. I tired not of the tigress limbs and lips— Only, my soul was weary of itself, Being so impotent, who only sips The dewdrops from the flower-cup of an elf, Not comprehending the mysterious sea Of black swift waters that can drink it up, Not trusting life to its own ecstasy, Not mixing poison with the loving-cup. I, maker of mad rimes, t…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 92

Why Jesus Wept

…acta as any other mother : (2) The English law, cognisant of the dilemma set forth above, permits the use of a poker in the relations of man and wife : (3) If God’s Grace can break a habit, it can surely rupture a hymen.

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1930 · PDF PAGE 6

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 2)

… to achieve anything that is not in absolute accordance with his Original Oath, with his True Will, by virtue whereof he incarnated as a man. With Bill Sykes love and murder are not mutually exclusive, as they are with King Arthur. The higher the type of man, the more sensitive he becomes; so that the noblest love divines intuitively when a careless word or gesture may wound, and, vigilant, shuns them as being of the family of murder. In Magick, likewise, the Adept who is sworn to attain to the Know¬ ledge and Conversation of his Holy Guardian …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 142

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…e the tool Of their smooth Hes and monstrous miracles! O break this bondage and cast off their spells ! Five righteous! Thou a righteous man! A jest ! A righteous man-—you always loved me best, And even when lured by lips of wanton girls Would turn away and sigh and touch my curls And slip half-conscious to the old em- brace: And now you will not let me see your face Or hear your voice or touch you. Ah! the hour! Fle moves. Come back, come back, my life’s one flower ! Come back. One kiss before you leave me. So! Stop—turn—one little kiss before…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 104

John St. John

…e Adept) is the Tamo-Guna, the Power of Elemental Darkness, broken once and for ever, so that His sleep is vivid and rational as another man’s waking; His waking another man’s Samadhi; His Samadhi—to which He ever strives—— ? ? ? ? ? At least this latter view is suggested by the Rosicrucian formula of Reception: May thy mind be open unto the Higher! May thy heart be the Centre of Light ! May thy body be the Temple of the Rosy Cross ! and by the Hindu statement that in the attainedYogin

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1930 · PDF PAGE 71

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 2)

… he struggle against imprisonment, banishment, death? It is ail part of the game in which he is a pawn. “It was necessary for the Son of Man to suffer these things, and to enter into His glory.” The Master of the Temple is so far from the man in whom He manifests that ail these matters are of no importance to Him. It may be of importance to His Work that man shall sit upon a throne, or be hanged. In such a case He informs his Magus, who exerts the power intrusted to Him, and it happens accord¬ ingly. Yet ail happens naturally, and of necessity,…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 114

Collected Works (Vol. I)

THE TRIUMPH OF MAN 107 Wave in the sunbright air, whose lips of flame Chant the almighty music of One Name Whose perfume fills the silent atmosphere, Whose passionate melodies caress the ear ; An angel, strong and eloquent, aloud Cries lo the earth to lift the final shroud, And, having burst Faith’s coffin, to lay by The winding-sheet of Infidelity, And rise up naked, as a god, to hear This message from the reawakened sphere ; Words with love clothed, with life immortal shod :— ‘* Mankind is made a little part of God.” ! Till the response, full…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 189

The Winged Beetle

…as they go out. DELHOMME. [returning]. One word in your ear, sir, if I may. It’s purely instinctive—but—but—well, sir, I mis- trust that man Todd ! OSSORY. Thanks : I believe you may be right. DELHOMME. Good-bye, sir ! OSSORY. Good-bye. MRS. OSSORY [rising]. Alfred, that man is a devil ! OSSORY. What, little Delhomme ? MRS. OSSORY. Of course not, Alfred. How can you be so silly ? Todd !

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1912 · PDF PAGE 20

Book 4 (Part I)

…ith the Tables of the Law in his hand. St. Paul (again), after his adventure on the road to Damascus, goes into the desert of Arabia for many years, and on his return overturns the Roman Empire. Even in the legends of savages we find the same thing universal; somebody who is nobody in particular goes away for a longer or shorter period, and comes back as the “ great medicine man”; but nobody ever knows exactly what happened to him. Making every possible deduction for fable and myth, we get this one coincidence. A nobody goes away, and comes back…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 135

Book 4 (Part II)

123 tis" is one of the many meanings of the aphorism "solve," correspond- ing to the "coagula " implied in Samadhi,and this Pantacle therefore represents all that we are, the resultant of all that we had a tendency to be. In the I)hamniai)ada we read: All that wc are from mind results; on mind is founded, built of mind; Who acts or speaks with evil thought him doth pain follow sure and blind. So the ox plants his foot, and so the car wheel follows hard behind. All that we are from mind results; on mind is founded, built of mind; Who acts or spe…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 206

Liber Aleph

…thout Leak, or Friction, or any other Waste or Hindrance to its Action. Thou knowest well how an Horse, or even a Machine propelled by a Man’s feet, becometh as it were as Extension of the Rider, though his Skill and Custom. Thus let thy Star have profit of thy Vehicle, assimilating it, and sustaining it, so that it be healed of its Separation, and this even in Life, but most especially in Death. Also thou oughtest to increase thy Vehicle in Mass by true Growth in Balance, that thou be a Bridegroom comely and wellfavoured, a Man of might, and a…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 75

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…CAPTAIN. Yes, my lord. [Sa/ztes.] ALAIN. Let them be drawn up behind yon door. When I clap my hands you will raise the arras, but let no man move. And let ’em be silent—the man I hear Thang. [CAPTAIN salutes.} You may go. [CAPTAIN salutes, and exit, ALAIN reaches to a tome on the table.) Now, Flaccus, let us spend this night together as we have spent so many. The crisis of my life—my brother’s trust, God rest his soul! [evosses himself and mutters silently in prayer|—shall not find Alain de Malétroit unready or disturbed. SCENE CLOSES. SCENE II…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 82

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…eses up as tf to strike her uncle, sees IYENYS, screams, covers her face with her hands, and sinks on the Hoor. BLANCHE, That is not the man !—my uncle—that is not the man ! ALAIN. [Chuckles.| So? Of course not. I ex- pected as much. It was so unfortunate you could not remember his name. BLANCHE, This is not the man. ALAIN. Aman, niece. [Zurns airily to DENYS.] Tempestiva sequi viro, Monsieur Denys. BLANCHE. Indeed, indeed, I have never seen this person till this moment. [7Zurns to DENYS imploringly.| Sir,if you are a gentleman, you will bear m…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 48

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 2)

… utterance of a being whose powers are partial and limited, though not to such an extent, or in the same directions, as one’s own. But a man who is advised to purchase a certain stock should not complain if a general panic knocks the bottom ont of it a few weeks later. The advice only referred to the prospects of the stock in itself. The divination must not be blarned any more than one would blâme a man for buying a house at Ypres three vears before the World-War. As against this, one must insist that it is obviously to the advan- tage of the d…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 111

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…bit, and the results of treatment or accident are distinctly visible in it: for example, he who by nature or training or both was a tall man while he was alive, will remain as he was, after he is dead; and the fat man will remain fat; and so on; and the dead man who in life had a fancy to have flowing hair, will have flowing hair. And if he was marked with the whip and had the prints of the scourge, or of wounds in him when he was alive, you might see the same in the dead body; and if his limbs were broken or misshapen when he was alive, the sa…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 172

The Law is for All

Chapter III A Verse 55 173 woman’s nature as seen by the clear eyes of those who would lose money if they misjudged her; and they are loathsomely revolting to read. Her mental and moral characteristics are those of the parrot and the monkey. Her physiology and pathology are hideously disgusting, a sickening slime of uncleanliness. Her virgin life is a sick ape’s, her sexual life a drunken sow’s, her mother life all bulging filmy eyes and sagging udders. These are the facts about “innocence;” to this has man’s Chris­ tian Endeavour dragged her w…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 233

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…ds as they go out. DELHOMME [vefurning]. One word in your ear, sir, if I may. It’s purely instinctive—but—but—well, sir, I mistrust that man Todd! ossory. Thanks: I believe you may be right. DELHOMME. Good-bye, sir! ossory. Good-bye. mrs. ossory [rising]. Alfred, that man is a devil! ossory. What, little Delhomme? MRS. ossory. Of course not, Alfred. How can you be so silly? Todd! ossory. Why, whatever do you mean? MRS. ossory. I don’t mean anything but what I say. 215

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1910 · PDF PAGE 233

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…ds as they go out. DELHOMME [vefurning]. One word in your ear, sir, if I may. It’s purely instinctive—but—but—well, sir, I mistrust that man Todd! ossory. Thanks: I believe you may be right. DELHOMME. Good-bye, sir! ossory. Good-bye. mrs. ossory [rising]. Alfred, that man is a devil! ossory. What, little Delhomme? MRS. ossory. Of course not, Alfred. How can you be so silly? Todd! ossory. Why, whatever do you mean? MRS. ossory. I don’t mean anything but what I say. 215

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1904 · PDF PAGE 22

In Residence

…! You reckon on the odd. 1 The author is indebted to Mr Francis Thompson for this felicitous and, withal, epigrammatic way of writing ‘‘ man.”

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